Category: Outdoors
Go East: Ruby Mountains a Geologic Spectacle, Vacation Destination
Written by Kyle Magin Scrap every desert cliche you’ve formulated about Nevada’s basin-range landscape. Big brown mountains. Barely-arable basins stretching as far as the eye can see. Nevada’s Ruby Mountains buck every notion you have about the outdoors the Silver State has to offer. The 50-plus mile-long range–10 miles wide at its thickest–is a haven […]
Tahoe Trailblazing
Inside the evolving art of trailbuilding Written by Greyson Howard Trails etch into packed earth and chipped stone across the Tahoe landscape, zigzagging up the Sierra’s steep peaks, tracing a parallel course to its streams and rivers, dipping into shaded woods and bursting onto sunny meadows. Trails are a part of the region’s landscape, […]
Born to be Wild: Tahoe’s wildflowers
A primer to some of Tahoe’s wildflower wonders Written by Allison Bender Summer in Tahoe means a spectacular display of colorful blooms: fields of yellow mule ears gazing at the sun, seas of blue lupine and orange poppies nodding in the wind. More than 700 kinds of wildflowers grow in the region, according to Zephyr […]
Northstar readies for Tahoe Tough Mudder 2013
By Kyle Magin This weekend, people will pay to have themselves shocked, dragged through mud, propelled over walls and dunked in freezing cold water. The notoriously difficult Tough Mudder obstacle challenge–a run through 20-plus military-style obstacles over an 11 mile course–kicks off at 8 a.m. Saturday and continues throughout the weekend at Northstar California. It’s […]
Weekend Outlook: June 27-30
The second full weekend of summer has tons of fun in store in and around Tahoe. If you’re not already here, point the car up the hill and hit the gas, because it’s going to be HOT in the valleys this weekend. Thankfully, it’ll be beautiful up here, perfect swimming weather is in the forecast. […]
Tahoe Tough
From Ultra runs to obstacle courses, Tahoe’s best races challenge body and mind Written by Justin Broglio When this article went to print, athletes training for Lake Tahoe’s first Ironman Triathlon had 26 weeks until race day. While that may seem a long time, it’s nothing compared to the training schedule prescribed to take on […]
Giant Goldfish Indicated Big Problems for Tahoe
Written by Kyle Magin The last time something gold made this kind of news in California, it sparked a rush. But a 4.2 pound, 14-plus inch goldfish pulled out of Tahoe early in 2013 sparked little but alarm this time around. Researchers from the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), led by scientist Deepak Chandra, pulled […]
Teeing Off
Disc golf comes to the “fore” front of Tahoe sports Written by Kyle Magin Brandon Uppham sized up a shot on Incline Village’s disc golf course and cocked the hard plastic disc across his body. From a half-crouch—and forgetting, or not caring, to shed his over-the-shoulder disc-carrying satchel—he unleashed his disc low and straight through […]
Desolation: Cherished and Guarded
Popular Tahoe wilderness ages well under the close eye of devoted stewards Written by Sylas Wright Desolation is a relative term. In the case of Lake Tahoe’s prize slice of backcountry real estate, the designated expanse of scenic, jagged peaks, rock-coated valleys and lakes of gin-clear quality earned the moniker from its barren appearance—a land […]
Push it to the Limit
Tahoe’s history of skiers and riders pushing it harder and higher has led to triumph and tragedy Written by Alison Bender Tahoe’s athletes and terrain push the boundries of skiing. In late February, 60 of the world’s best big mountain skiers and riders gathered at Kirkwood Mountain Resort to compete on its Cirque terrain: a […]
